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These processes included the intersections of race and class divisions in Tanzania, the growth of Ithnasheri organizations transnationally, Mapping Feminisms and Difference • 37 and the diffusion of speciﬁc gendered ideologies among the local Ithnasheris. To address these processes, I present in the remainder of this chapter two main sections, each highlighting how nested hierarchical scales (N. Smith 1992a) interacted to shape these multilayered politics of difference. In the ﬁrst section I sketch Tanzania’s political economy to identify processes that constituted the Ithnasheri community in relation to other Asian groups and the African majority.

She advocated a notion of citizenship that combines official political status, conferred through a set of rights, and practice, deﬁned through a broad sense of participation. This combination draws attention to the political structures that reinforce or transform inequalities, as well as human agency. Lister also argued for a multiscaled, internationalist sense of citizenship. In doing so, she raised questions about the changing geography of citizenship, an issue that feminist geographers also have addressed.

Although religious differences are critical in deﬁning social lives of Asian people, it is the oppositional construction of Asian women as virtuous and of African and racially mixed women as promiscuous and sexually available that underpins the gendered policing of the communal frontiers. 4 million. 6 Although they were clustered together in one residential area, the communal affairs of all the Asian groups were mutually independent. In the Ithnasheri community, all the religious and social affairs were organized through a body called the Jamaat.